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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/27] Latest numa/core release, v16
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:14:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121121111450.GW8218@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1211192329090.14460@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:37:01PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > No doubt numa/core should not regress with THP off or on and 
> > I'll fix that.
> > 
> > As a background, here's how SPECjbb gets slower on mainline 
> > (v3.7-rc6) if you boot Mel's kernel config and turn THP forcibly
> > off:
> > 
> >   (avg: 502395 ops/sec)
> >   (avg: 505902 ops/sec)
> >   (avg: 509271 ops/sec)
> > 
> >   # echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
> > 
> >   (avg: 376989 ops/sec)
> >   (avg: 379463 ops/sec)
> >   (avg: 378131 ops/sec)
> > 
> > A ~30% slowdown.
> > 
> > [ How do I know? I asked for Mel's kernel config days ago and
> >   actually booted Mel's very config in the past few days, 
> >   spending hours on testing it on 4 separate NUMA systems, 
> >   trying to find Mel's regression. In the past Mel was a 
> >   reliable tester so I blindly trusted his results. Was that 
> >   some weird sort of denial on my part? :-) ]
> > 
> 
> I confirm that numa/core regresses significantly more without thp than the 
> 6.3% regression I reported with thp in terms of throughput on the same 
> system.  numa/core at 01aa90068b12 ("sched: Use the best-buddy 'ideal cpu' 
> in balancing decisions") had 99389.49 SPECjbb2005 bops whereas 
> ec05a2311c35 ("Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core") had 122246.90 
> SPECjbb2005 bops, a 23.0% regression.
> 

I also see different regressions and gains depending on the number of
warehouses. For low number of warehouses without THP the regression was
severe but flat for higher number of warehouses. I explained in another
mail that specjbb reports based on peak figures and regressions outside
the peak can be missed as a result so we should watch out for that.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/27] Latest numa/core release, v16
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:14:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121121111450.GW8218@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1211192329090.14460@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:37:01PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > No doubt numa/core should not regress with THP off or on and 
> > I'll fix that.
> > 
> > As a background, here's how SPECjbb gets slower on mainline 
> > (v3.7-rc6) if you boot Mel's kernel config and turn THP forcibly
> > off:
> > 
> >   (avg: 502395 ops/sec)
> >   (avg: 505902 ops/sec)
> >   (avg: 509271 ops/sec)
> > 
> >   # echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
> > 
> >   (avg: 376989 ops/sec)
> >   (avg: 379463 ops/sec)
> >   (avg: 378131 ops/sec)
> > 
> > A ~30% slowdown.
> > 
> > [ How do I know? I asked for Mel's kernel config days ago and
> >   actually booted Mel's very config in the past few days, 
> >   spending hours on testing it on 4 separate NUMA systems, 
> >   trying to find Mel's regression. In the past Mel was a 
> >   reliable tester so I blindly trusted his results. Was that 
> >   some weird sort of denial on my part? :-) ]
> > 
> 
> I confirm that numa/core regresses significantly more without thp than the 
> 6.3% regression I reported with thp in terms of throughput on the same 
> system.  numa/core at 01aa90068b12 ("sched: Use the best-buddy 'ideal cpu' 
> in balancing decisions") had 99389.49 SPECjbb2005 bops whereas 
> ec05a2311c35 ("Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core") had 122246.90 
> SPECjbb2005 bops, a 23.0% regression.
> 

I also see different regressions and gains depending on the number of
warehouses. For low number of warehouses without THP the regression was
severe but flat for higher number of warehouses. I explained in another
mail that specjbb reports based on peak figures and regressions outside
the peak can be missed as a result so we should watch out for that.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-21 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 204+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-19  2:14 [PATCH 00/27] Latest numa/core release, v16 Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 01/27] mm/generic: Only flush the local TLB in ptep_set_access_flags() Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 02/27] x86/mm: Only do a local tlb flush " Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 03/27] x86/mm: Introduce pte_accessible() Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 04/27] mm: Only flush the TLB when clearing an accessible pte Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 05/27] x86/mm: Completely drop the TLB flush from ptep_set_access_flags() Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 06/27] mm: Count the number of pages affected in change_protection() Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 07/27] mm: Optimize the TLB flush of sys_mprotect() and change_protection() users Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 08/27] sched, numa, mm: Add last_cpu to page flags Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 09/27] sched, mm, numa: Create generic NUMA fault infrastructure, with architectures overrides Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 10/27] sched: Make find_busiest_queue() a method Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 11/27] sched, numa, mm: Describe the NUMA scheduling problem formally Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 12/27] numa, mm: Support NUMA hinting page faults from gup/gup_fast Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 13/27] mm/migrate: Introduce migrate_misplaced_page() Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 14/27] sched, numa, mm, arch: Add variable locality exception Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 15/27] sched, numa, mm: Add credits for NUMA placement Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 16/27] sched, mm, x86: Add the ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING flag Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 17/27] sched, numa, mm: Add the scanning page fault machinery Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 18/27] sched: Add adaptive NUMA affinity support Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 19/27] sched: Implement constant, per task Working Set Sampling (WSS) rate Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 20/27] sched, numa, mm: Count WS scanning against present PTEs, not virtual memory ranges Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 21/27] sched: Implement slow start for working set sampling Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 22/27] sched, numa, mm: Interleave shared tasks Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 23/27] sched: Implement NUMA scanning backoff Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 24/27] sched: Improve convergence Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 25/27] sched: Introduce staged average NUMA faults Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 26/27] sched: Track groups of shared tasks Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14 ` [PATCH 27/27] sched: Use the best-buddy 'ideal cpu' in balancing decisions Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19  2:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 16:29 ` [PATCH 00/27] Latest numa/core release, v16 Mel Gorman
2012-11-19 16:29   ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-19 19:13   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 19:13     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 21:18     ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-19 21:18       ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-19 22:36       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 22:36         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 23:00         ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-19 23:00           ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-20  0:41           ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-20  0:41             ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-21 10:58             ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-21 10:58               ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-20  1:02         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-11-20  1:02           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-11-20  7:17           ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20  7:17             ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20  7:37             ` David Rientjes
2012-11-20  7:37               ` David Rientjes
2012-11-20  7:48               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20  7:48                 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20  8:01               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20  8:01                 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20  8:11                 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-20  8:11                   ` David Rientjes
2012-11-21 11:14               ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2012-11-21 11:14                 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-20 10:20             ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-20 10:20               ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-20 10:47               ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-20 10:47                 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-20 15:29             ` [PATCH] mm, numa: Turn 4K pte NUMA faults into effective hugepage ones Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 15:29               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 16:09               ` [PATCH, v2] " Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 16:09                 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 16:31                 ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-20 16:31                   ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-20 16:52                   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 16:52                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 12:08                     ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-21 12:08                       ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-21  8:12                   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21  8:12                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21  2:41                 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-21  2:41                   ` David Rientjes
2012-11-21  9:34                   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21  9:34                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 11:40                 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-21 11:40                   ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-23  1:26                 ` Alex Shi
2012-11-23  1:26                   ` Alex Shi
2012-11-20 17:56               ` numa/core regressions fixed - more testers wanted Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 17:56                 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21  1:54                 ` Andrew Theurer
2012-11-21  1:54                   ` Andrew Theurer
2012-11-21  3:22                   ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-21  3:22                     ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-21  4:10                     ` Hugh Dickins
2012-11-21  4:10                       ` Hugh Dickins
2012-11-21 12:45                       ` Hillf Danton
2012-11-21 17:59                       ` Andrew Theurer
2012-11-21 17:59                         ` Andrew Theurer
2012-11-21 11:52                   ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-21 11:52                     ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-21 22:15                     ` Andrew Theurer
2012-11-21 22:15                       ` Andrew Theurer
2012-11-21  3:33                 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-21  3:33                   ` David Rientjes
2012-11-21  9:38                   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21  9:38                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 11:06                   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 11:06                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21  8:39                 ` Alex Shi
2012-11-21  8:39                   ` Alex Shi
2012-11-22  1:21                   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-22  1:21                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-23 13:31                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-23 13:31                       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-23 15:23                       ` Alex Shi
2012-11-23 15:23                         ` Alex Shi
2012-11-26  2:11                       ` Alex Shi
2012-11-26  2:11                         ` Alex Shi
2012-11-28 14:21                         ` Alex Shi
2012-11-28 14:21                           ` Alex Shi
2012-11-20 10:40         ` [PATCH 00/27] Latest numa/core release, v16 Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 10:40           ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 11:40           ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-20 11:40             ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-21 10:38     ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-21 10:38       ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-21 19:37       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-11-21 19:37         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-11-21 19:56         ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-21 19:56           ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-19 20:07   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 20:07     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 21:37     ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-19 21:37       ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-20  0:50   ` David Rientjes
2012-11-20  0:50     ` David Rientjes
2012-11-20  1:05     ` David Rientjes
2012-11-20  1:05       ` David Rientjes
2012-11-20  6:00       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20  6:00         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20  6:20         ` David Rientjes
2012-11-20  6:20           ` David Rientjes
2012-11-20  7:44           ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20  7:44             ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20  7:48             ` Paul Turner
2012-11-20  7:48               ` Paul Turner
2012-11-20  8:20             ` David Rientjes
2012-11-20  8:20               ` David Rientjes
2012-11-20  9:06               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20  9:06                 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20  9:41                 ` [patch] x86/vsyscall: Add Kconfig option to use native vsyscalls, switch to it Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20  9:41                   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 23:01                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-11-20 23:01                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-11-21  0:43                   ` David Rientjes
2012-11-21  0:43                     ` David Rientjes
2012-11-20 12:02                 ` [PATCH] x86/mm: Don't flush the TLB on #WP pmd fixups Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 12:02                   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 12:31                   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 12:31                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 11:47                     ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-21 11:47                       ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-21  1:22                   ` David Rientjes
2012-11-21  1:22                     ` David Rientjes
2012-11-22 23:22                   ` [tip:x86/mm] " tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 17:02                 ` [PATCH 00/27] Latest numa/core release, v16 Linus Torvalds
2012-11-21 17:02                   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-11-21 17:10                   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 17:10                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 17:20                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 17:20                       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-22  4:31                       ` David Rientjes
2012-11-22  4:31                         ` David Rientjes
2012-11-21 17:40                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 17:40                       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 22:04                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-11-21 22:04                       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-11-21 22:46                       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 22:46                         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 17:45                   ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-21 17:45                     ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-21 18:04                   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 18:04                     ` Ingo Molnar

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